
	Journal of Foreign Legislation and Comparative Law Reference: Shayakhmetov T.R. Development of Institute of Self-Defense in English Law // Journal of Foreign Legislation and Comparative Law. 2015. № 2. P. 317-321. URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=66720 Shayakhmetov T.R. Development of Institute of Self-Defense in English Law Abstract: This article surveys the main stages of the institution of self-defense, as well as the key points of the evolution of the provisions of the basic attributes of its legality in the UK law from X century until now. The author examines the impact of statutory and common law on the development of the legislation on self-defense, in particular, such elements of the legal institution, as a preventive defense, defending factual error, the protection of property. A brief review of the current UK law on self-defense is given. The author notes the special role of precedent in the formation of institutions of self-defense in English law, it is concluded that this personal approach of appellate courts to judicial cases on the circumstances of self-defense and in-depth analysis of all elements of the objective and subjective sides of cases make possible to identify and secure the necessary legal elements of institute of defense. Thus, at the present time development of the institution of self-defense in the UK is an additional safeguard to protect human rights and freedoms, and an essential element of a law state and civil society. Keywords: self-defense, legal self-defense, the history of self-defense, criminal law the UK, case law, crime, legal institution, preventive defense, actual error. This article can be downloaded freely in PDF format for reading. Download article This article written in Russian. You can find original text of the article here . References 1. Golovanova N.A. Domashnee nasilie v svete Stambul'skoy konventsii 2011 g. // Zhurnal zarubezhnogo zakonodatel'-stva i sravnitel'nogo pravovedeniya. 2014. № 3. S. 555–562. 2. Brown, B. «Self-Defence in Homicide From Strict Liability to Complete Exculpation» (1958). Criminal Law Review. 3. Clarckson and Keating, Criminal Law: Text and material (Sweet & Maxwell, 2014). 4. Coke, E.The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England (London, 1644). 5. European Court of Human Rights: URL:http://www.echr.coe.int 6. Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express: URL: http://www.express.co.uk 7. Hale, M. Historia Placitorum Coronæ, The History of the Pleas of the Crown, Vol. I (London, 1736). 8. legislation.gov.uk: URL: http://www.legislation.gov.uk 9. Maintland, F.W. Select Pleas of the Crown Vol. I: A.D. 1200-1225 (London, 1887) 10. Miller, J., Criminal Law, (St. Paul, 1934). 11. Moreland, R. The Law of Homicide (Indianapolis, 1952). 12. Morris and Howard, Studies in Criminal Law (Oxford, 1964). 13. Ormerod, D. Smith and Hogan’s Criminal Law, (Oxford, 2011). 14. Plucknett, T.F.T., A Concise History of the Common Law (Little, Brown and Co, 1956). 15. Stephen, Sir J.F., A History of the Criminal Law of England, Vol. III (London, 1883). 16. The Telegraph: URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk 17. Tyrwhitt R.P., Tyndale, T.W.A Digest of the Public General Statutes from Magna Charta, Vol. I. An Act where a Man killing a Thief, shall not forfeit his Good (London, 1822). 18. Wikisource: URL: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki 19. Windeyer, W.J.V. Lectures on Legal History (Sydney, 1938). 20. Yadav, R.D. Law of Crime and Self-defence (New Delhi, 1993)

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